When Carrie Schopp was born on 11 October 1861, in New York, United States, her father, Jacob Schopp, was 32 and her mother, Catherine Hoag, was 24. She married Sheldon Peckum Coats on 20 January 1883, in Convis Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 29 January 1928, in Convis Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Oakridge Cemetery, Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
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North German: metonymic occupational name for a maker of ladles and clippers or scoops, from Middle Low German schōpe ‘ladle’.
North German: variant of Schaub .
German: habitational name from a place so named near Kaiserslautern.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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